Two weeks after the Star Theater owner was jailed for two days — for ignoring a court order to clean up his 320 Titicut Road property in Raynham — he was once again in front of the same superior court judge who ordered him held without bail.

Two weeks after the Star Theater owner was jailed for two days — for ignoring a court order to clean up his 320 Titicut Road property in Raynham — he was once again in front of the same superior court judge who ordered him held without bail.

“You’re playing with fire,” Judge Renee Dupuis told O’Donnell Tuesday, as he stood next to his new lawyer, Taunton’s Jean-Paul Thomas.

And although Dupuis subsequently released him from the Dartmouth House of Correction, after he satisfactorily purged his contempt — by hiring workers to remove debris — this time around she issued a fresh warning.

At a noontime hearing in Taunton Superior Court, Dupuis was clearly dissatisfied after viewing photographic evidence presented by Karis North — one of two attorneys who have represented the town in its months-long quest to get O’Donnell to haul away junk and debris.

Dupuis noted that recent photos taken by Dennis Machado, Raynham’s building inspector, indicate the 48-year-old O’Donnell has been transporting and depositing “all sorts of things” onto the same residential site.

“If you want to be back here, keep it up,” the soft-spoken Dupuis said, as she looked directly at the casually dressed O’Donnell.

After the hearing, North said O’Donnell, for the time being, doesn’t have to worry about being put back in jail. In order to be found in contempt a second time the town must first decide whether to file yet another civil complaint, she said.

O’Donnell indicated to Dupuis he intends to pursue a trial; last April he filed a counterclaim accusing the town of “harassing” him and depriving him of his constitutional rights.

He also complained that Taunton Superior Court first assistant clerk Phil Leddy, who was present, had yet to file his appeal for a trial. Leddy, however, told O’Donnell that every appeal he has filed has been “interlocutory in nature” and “is not a final appeal.”

An interlocutory appeal is an appeal of a ruling made before a trial has been heard and concluded.

Dupuis scheduled a status conference pursuant to a trial on Dec. 8.

O’Donnell is still on the hook for paying Raynham $15,000 to cover legal/court costs and $8,000 in fines for having failed to clean up the exterior of the house at 320 Titicut Road.

He has until Dec. 12 to pay the $15,000 and Jan. 12 to pay the $8,000, the latter of which represents an accumulation of daily, compounding fines for violating state and local sanitary and safety laws.

At around 9 a.m. on Nov. 7, the split-level ranch, with O’Donnell inside, caught fire.

Authorities later said the fire, which resulted in smoke and water damage to the living room and room above, started in the fireplace.

Page 2 of 2 - The fire is still under investigation by the state’s Department of Fire Services.

O’Donnell, for nearly two years, has been embroiled in a court case with the city of Taunton over a 140-year-old building he owns known as the Star Theater/Leonard Block.

Located downtown at 107-111 Main St., the Star, as it’s often referred to, is now a decrepit four-story building which decades ago was used for a variety of businesses.

The city claims the building constitutes a safety threat and is in need of significant structural repair.